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The reporter fabricated an aspect of an already false story he didn't bother to verify for accuracy with the folks involved and made it worse. Toby is a target of the media because he's one of the few openly conservative artists out there. It's no different than the media's bogus treatment of Sarah Palin or Glenn Beck and other conservatives versus their fawning and pro Obama worshipping coverage of the President. And the right wing media does the same BS in reverse. You can't trust any of the media coverage as being straight forward and factual.

Standards of reporting have been degrading for a long time. Even I've run into it many times. JPF has been in the Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Chicago Sun Times and Tribune, Washington Post and countless other Newspapers as well as magazines (most of which have since shut down) and with the exception of the Chicago papers, we were never contacted to verify the facts of the stories a single time. Often an email with info or a press release was used verbatum. (And not a press release sent by us, we've never sent one out about ourselves in 14 years). They are lazy at best and dishonest or biased at worst and that's sadly all too common. Even when confronted with indisputable facts that disprove claims printed by the Associated Press in an article, they chose not to retract it and said even though they knew the info was false, it was okay because they took the word of their source and they were safe from legal issues. So they happily printed (and continued to print) false info. I wrote an article about it at the time and named names.

Entertainment media is by nature all a bunch of BS most of the time anyway, but that mindset has polluted the entire profession.

Brian